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fever. Example, Influenza, or catarrhal fever. (See 

 Influenza, and Grastritis Mucosa.) 



Typhosus. — A species of fever at present, perhaps, not 

 very clearly defined, and consequent upon changes that 

 have taken place in the blood of horses — a blood disease 

 resulting in nervous prostration. It is comparatively a 

 new disease, and is, in different parts of the country, called 

 and known by various names, according to the chief symp- 

 tom there observed. It is known in New York as 

 cerebro spinal-meningitis by those who have seen the 

 disease, because it is thought to be like when a man is 

 affected in the meninges — or membranes which envelop 

 the brain and the spinal marrow — producing choking dis- 

 temper, putrid fever, paralysis of the par-vagum, or pneu- 

 mogastric nerve, on account of the chief symptom being 

 the inability of the horse to at least voluntarily swallow. 



The Symptoms of this affection in the horse are at first or 

 in the early stage very latent or hidden. The chief of 

 them is in the quiding of the food, as the holding it in the 

 mouth and refusing to swallow ; also, by placing a bucket 

 of water or other fluid within reach of a horse so aflected, 

 when he will place his mouth into and agitate it, going 

 through the process of deglutition or swallowing without 

 consuming. This has been the great symptom with those 

 on the Delaware River, at Wilmington, Odessa, Smyrna, 

 Bombay Hook, and also at Cold Spring Harbor, Long 

 Island, New York, in the year 1867, when and where my 

 advice and services were required. The inability to 

 swallow continues for some days, when, from loss of 

 sustenance and change in the circulating fluid, the horse 

 lies or falls down exhausted. It should be observed that 

 while the horses on Long Island, and on the Delaware 



